Electric Car Update! This weekend will be 3 months that I’ve had the car. My most recent electric utility bill
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Electric Vehicle ownership, Chapter 1
I signed the paperwork on Tuesday, February 28th; I picked the car up on Friday, March 3rd. I picked up
Continue readingGen1 Hyper-V Virtual Machines to Gen2 by converting boot drives from MBR to GPT
While I consider myself a long way from being an absolute master, I think I have more experience with Microsoft
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Windows 22H2 repeatedly says “wrong username and password” trying to login Active Directory user
I recently had to troubleshoot an issue where a new Surface Pro 9 for an employee of an existing company.
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Gaining Command Prompt access on a Windows Computer that has never been set up
I sometimes work in an environment that has reasonably tight security requirements. One of those requirements as that a device’s
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People often get a lot of annoying pop ups down by their clocks in Windows 10 and 11, and what
Continue readingI Love What I Do
Originally published on Reddit in the /r/Sysadmin subreddit which was often filled with negativity and frustration, I shared this: I’m
Continue readingHow to fix Pending Update of Snap-Store, Close the App to Avoid Disruption
I have a Virtual Machine running Ubuntu Linux that I use for testing purposes, but it recently started popping up
Continue readingWhat’s the big deal with REBOOTING my computer, anyway?
In my personal life, I regularly have people come up to me and ask “Why does my IT guy always
Continue readingWindows 10 / 11 HEIC / HEIF Image Extensions for Free
These days, many phones, in particular iPhones, will shoot photographs in raw or in High Efficiency Image File formats. But
Continue readingWindows 10 / 11 HEVC Video Extension for Free
Microsoft offers the HEVC Video Extension necessary to play videos from iPhone users on their store, but they often try
Continue readingSpamhaus blocking sites not on block list?
Seemingly out of nowhere after literally over a decade of using Spamhaus with no issues, people were having issues sending
Continue readingApple is blowing it with this charging port fiasco
I’ve never been much of an Apple guy. The only Apple product I’ve personally owned was a used Mac Mini
Continue readingHow To Add Safe Mode & Safe Mode w/ Command Prompt to Windows Boot Options
I recently ran in to a VERY frustrating issue trying to get a Windows 10 computer to boot in to
Continue readingA History Lesson of modern Microsoft Windows
Reddit user “winitgc” asked the question “Why do people hate Windows 10?” And it struck me as an interesting prompt.
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